Learn more about this dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this growing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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